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nonfiction picture book Wednesday

Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge has long been one of my favorite annual reading challenges, but I never got my blogging act in gear in 2016 to participate in weekly posts. (Though I did do plenty of reading: check out my list of 10 favorite nonfiction picture books from 2016). I’d like to do…

Kid Lit Frenzy hosts my favorite reading challenge, Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday. This week, I’m sharing the 10 nonfiction authors I recommend most to pre-service teachers in my Adolescent Literature class. There are no required books in this class (because man do I hate required reading), but there are required categories, and nonfiction is one…

There are so many 2015 nonfiction picture book titles that I never got around to this year. If I had followed through on my reading plans, I have a feeling that this list might be very different. Still, in a year that felt like one long reading slump where I quit every reading challenge I…

The 2015 Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge is hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy. Visit Alyson’s blog to discover wonderful nonfiction picture book titles. The Robert F. Sibert Informational Award, which honors the most distinguished informational books published for children, is one of my favorite ALA Youth Media Awards: the books that win are consistently among the…

One of my favorite reading challenges is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to join the fun and discover the incredible variety of nonfiction picture books. Kathleen Krull’s new series, Women Who Broke the Rules, fills a much-needed book gap for the early chapter book set: entertaining nonfiction chapter books. I…

I’ve always read a lot of nonfiction aloud to my son: it’s one of my main strategies for teaching him about the world and helping him grow into a person full of wonder and curiosity. Nonfiction picture books are one of my favorite genres, and my own reading life is fairly balanced between fiction and…